2023 Jazz Heroes

2023 Jazz Hero Andrew Drury has champtioned boundless sound, shared by adventurous musicians and audiences alike.

2023 Jazz Hero Carolyn J. Kelley served as Boston Jazz Coalition's lead fundraiser and director for 11 years.

Eric Kennedy, drummer, vocalist, multi-percussionist and composer, is the Jazz Journalist Association’s 2023 Baltimore Jazz Hero.

2023 Jazz Hero Dr. Gordon Vernick, a jazz trumpeter and educator, has had a huge impact on the Atlanta Jazz...

Sara Donnelly has devoted her decades-long career to elevating and empowering artists on jazz’s cutting edge.

Pianist-percussionist-educator-composer-arranger, and now 2023 Jazz Hero, Tenia Nelson seems to be everywhere all at once.

2023 Jazz Hero Pedro Moreno's, Epistrophy Arts has been in the forefront of a local artistic culture that has only...

2023 Jazz Hero Mark Weber has lived in true service to ever-morphing jazz and its practitioners since his teen years...